Content+Area+Rescources

** Technology and Mathematics **

http://school.discoveryeducation.com/clipart/clip/calcltr.html

Obviously technology allows us to do amazing things we could not do in the past. With the development of the internet being available on a handheld device people are not limited to any information. We live in an age where students can almost learn from a computer alone. This raises some concerns when it comes to learning math with the use of technology.

**Concern 1**: Calculators and computers can calculate anything. Students may become too dependent on technology to do basic arithmetic. **Concern 2**: With the internet being everywhere why is there any need to memorize anything? **Concern 3**: It is easy to find answers to text book problems via websites like Cramster or Yahoo Answers.

**Solution 1**: There are ways of structuring a class, test, or other activity to be geared towards using a calculator or not. Much of my class will involve using a calculator but the calculator is useless if the student does not know the applications involved in using it. **Solution 2**: Well memorizing is not always the goal of a teacher. My goal is for the students to be able to recognize how everything we learn is connected. Students should be able to recognize patterns that enable them to learn. The students will learn that they need to be able to have a great understanding of the material if they wish to be successful in school. **Solution 3**: I actually encourage the use of any source to aid in homework. Even if the source tells them step by step how to solve a problem, the students can use this as a learning tool to check their work or see more examples. Fortunately not all problems are on the internet, if the student relies simply on the internet to solve their problems then they will be in trouble during test time or for the problems I assign from other sources.

During this class we will be using the TI 84 Plus Graphing Calculator, here is a link to it's instruction manual

Here are some helpful links for more math help.

Cool Math

[|Trigonometry Help]

[|S.O.S. Math]

[|Web Math]

[|Math]